Newsbites: HENDRIX guitar sells for £237,000
03 December 2012JIMI HENDRIX‘s favourite Fender Stratocaster sold at auction for £237,000 at the weekend.
The iconic musician loved the black guitar so much that he swapped it for a cheaper model just before raising a fire on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
The instrument, sold by former roadie James ‘Tappy’ Wright to fund his retirement, was expected to sell for £120,000.
Source: classicrockmagazine.com
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